Sigmund Freud Quotes
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But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
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An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
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The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
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Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
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The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.
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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
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Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself.
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
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My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.
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The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
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Dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.
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Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
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We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?
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To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us.